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Thursday, 9 May 2013

Peruvian Universities That Offer Distance Learning Bachelor Degrees

Distance learning is a new concept in Peru. In the US it's been around for ages. I remember looking at my dad's old comic books and they had adverts for correspondence courses in order to finish high school and get your high school diploma. High school diplomas are now the bare minimum needed for jobs. Most places ask for a bachelor degree, if not a master.

Backgroundto Bachelor Degrees in Peru
In
Peru there are two levels of bachelor's degrees. You get your bachiller
and your titlulo. The first means you've finished all the courses. The
second means you've done a capstone course: such as an intensive course,
internship, or thesis.

3 Universities in PeruPeru has three universities that I know of that offer distance learning, but even then it's not completely possible to do if you don't have someone in Peru to help you. My husband is going through Garcilaso de la Vega University and he had to go there in order to apply and spent a couple months trying to get credits transferred and whatnot. At the beginning in 2011 he had to have relatives physically go to the university and pick up the books and post them to him.

Garcilaso de la Vega University: 3 semestres a year. You should be able to finish in about 3 years. Affordable. It's not that
organised. Even a month into most semestres not all the professors have
told you what work is expected to you and if they tell you it's vague.
They'll tell you to write a paper or do research but will have no word
or page limit. In order to get your diploma for
either your bachiller or your titulo you also have to physically go to
the university and fill out tramites and wait a couple months. The
kicker? If you want to do your titulo at another university, which is
common enough in Peru, you have to wait until you have your diploma in
hand. Idiotic.
Passing your thesis is another grey
area. Not only do you have to rent the space where you give the thesis,
but you also have to pay the profs for their time. It seems like they'd
be pretty likely to fail you since then you'd have to hire them again. Peruvian culture is full of shades of grey and bribery: reminds me why I left Peru in the first
place.

Los Angeles Chimbote University: Should be affordable. Not that well-known of a university.

San Ignacio Loyola University: Pretty expensive. Aimed towards rich people or those whose companies will pay.

Conclusion
Hopefully there will be more universities that offer BA degrees and they'll organise their info better so that you don't physically have to go there to get stuff done.